Matt acknowledged in an interview that he was “a really bad Big Brother player.” In his final episode, he wondered, “Why me?” and also asked, “What more can I do?” Lucky for Matt, David Bloomberg and Ovi Kabir are here to give him, and everyone else, some answers! So why was it him and what should he have done differently? It’s time to figure out Why Matt Lost.[00:00:00] [SPEAKER_04]: Big Brotherhood and unforgettable moments. Already from 39€?
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[00:00:20] [SPEAKER_01]: This is why blank lost.
[00:00:23] [SPEAKER_01]: This is why blank lost.
[00:00:27] [SPEAKER_01]: This is why blank lost.
[00:00:28] [SPEAKER_00]: Welcome back to why blank lost for the first eviction of Big Brother 26 as we're here to talk about Matt, Matt, Matt.
[00:00:48] [SPEAKER_00]: I'm David Bloomberg and with me once again is my co-host Ovi Kabir who does not have crazy eyes and is too good of an actor for a low budget movie.
[00:01:00] [SPEAKER_03]: All right, David, that's a lot of little disses we threw at Matt in the beginning. I see that we're starring in fire as always happy to be here. Excited to kind of join you.
[00:01:08] [SPEAKER_03]: With this and man what a start to the season of Big Brother 26. I mean, it's been it's been fireworks. We've gone basically everything from A to Z, zero to 100 real quick.
[00:01:18] [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, yeah, an eventful week to be sure.
[00:01:22] [SPEAKER_00]: And, you know, perhaps not coincidentally, Matt has been at the center of a lot of it.
[00:01:29] [SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, he has been the center of it. He's the center of our show today.
[00:01:33] [SPEAKER_03]: And I think what we're gonna have to break down is figure out was it warranted that he was a center of it or was it unwarranted because I'm very curious because as people who've watched us already know David and I don't talk about what we're going to talk about with each other before we get on here.
[00:01:47] [SPEAKER_03]: We have our notes. He has his notes.
[00:01:49] [SPEAKER_03]: And so I'm interested to see if we're going to clash because I think maybe we will.
[00:01:53] [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah. All right. We'll see.
[00:01:54] [SPEAKER_00]: Well, for anyone who is new to the podcast, what we'll do today and indeed all season long is compare how each evicted house guest, obviously Matt today, played.
[00:02:06] [SPEAKER_00]: And again, like I said, compared to a set of guiding rules I originally wrote 20 years ago in 2004 and have modified ever since.
[00:02:15] [SPEAKER_00]: We'll analyze his actions using what we saw on TV, live feeds, interviews and any other information we could find.
[00:02:22] [SPEAKER_00]: The most recent version of the rules is posted at Rob has a website dot com slash Big Brother rules.
[00:02:27] [SPEAKER_00]: It says it's for Big Brother 22, but there haven't been any major updates to it since then, just minor tweaks and things.
[00:02:35] [SPEAKER_00]: So but we usually have some other things to discuss about the week in general before we get to the actual rules.
[00:02:43] [SPEAKER_00]: So let's let's start off with the A.I. arena twist.
[00:02:48] [SPEAKER_00]: I was not originally a fan.
[00:02:52] [SPEAKER_00]: Well, actually, let me let me walk that back.
[00:02:55] [SPEAKER_00]: I'm not a fan because as long as it's in play,
[00:03:00] [SPEAKER_00]: it means you and I will never know who's going to be evicted until Thursday night.
[00:03:06] [SPEAKER_00]: And then we generally record on Fridays.
[00:03:09] [SPEAKER_00]: So that doesn't give us much time.
[00:03:11] [SPEAKER_00]: You know, there were times a couple of years ago and more when we could see on Sunday who was going to be evicted.
[00:03:21] [SPEAKER_00]: And we'd be like, oh, good.
[00:03:23] [SPEAKER_00]: We can write our notes now and it'll it'll be fine.
[00:03:26] [SPEAKER_00]: We were annoyed last season when the players kept flipping things on Tuesdays or waffle Wednesdays.
[00:03:32] [SPEAKER_00]: But at least we usually had some clue and could plan a little bit in advance at this season.
[00:03:38] [SPEAKER_00]: Now, of course, that's probably what production wanted,
[00:03:42] [SPEAKER_00]: because it is a bit boring if you're watching live feeds and everything is decided by Sunday.
[00:03:48] [SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, I think we had maybe three versions of why Cam lost throughout the whole season.
[00:03:53] [SPEAKER_03]: And we were still unsure if it was going to happen or not.
[00:03:56] [SPEAKER_03]: Well, I still have.
[00:03:57] [SPEAKER_00]: I was I was looking back at my drafts to pick some information.
[00:04:01] [SPEAKER_00]: And I still have the almost full why Jag lost podcast notes that obviously never happened and never happened.
[00:04:09] [SPEAKER_03]: It's we were very close to a lot of these.
[00:04:12] [SPEAKER_03]: And I think the other thing with America's vote in play to it kind of continuously throws a level of chaos that we don't know who we have to have notes basically for four people potentially every week until this twist is on.
[00:04:26] [SPEAKER_03]: But I have to say, I know you don't like it.
[00:04:27] [SPEAKER_03]: I don't like it always as we do this podcast.
[00:04:30] [SPEAKER_03]: But, man, I think it switches it up.
[00:04:32] [SPEAKER_03]: And I will always advocate for more options for players to get themselves in safety because it just makes a more dynamic game.
[00:04:40] [SPEAKER_03]: I know it's difficult in ways, but I love watching it as a viewer.
[00:04:44] [SPEAKER_00]: I mean.
[00:04:46] [SPEAKER_00]: The thing I worried about, because, you know, some other people, Rob said the same thing, for example.
[00:04:52] [SPEAKER_00]: I don't want to see another chance for someone like a Jag to make himself safe.
[00:05:00] [SPEAKER_00]: He already you know, I mean, we saw that last season.
[00:05:04] [SPEAKER_00]: But and so that was my worry.
[00:05:08] [SPEAKER_00]: But what we have seen is that the comps are much more equitable.
[00:05:15] [SPEAKER_00]: And I know almost every Big Brother podcast has talked about that.
[00:05:18] [SPEAKER_00]: But here we are.
[00:05:19] [SPEAKER_00]: We have to give our opinions, too.
[00:05:22] [SPEAKER_00]: And that, to me, so far, balances it out.
[00:05:26] [SPEAKER_00]: You know, I don't want to see something that makes it harder to get rid of someone who's good at comps, which is what this does.
[00:05:35] [SPEAKER_00]: Unless it's a situation of comps that are so completely different that you can't plan for it.
[00:05:40] [SPEAKER_00]: I mean, like, I think it's really funny that Matt told Robin Taron in his interview that he felt like he didn't get to compete in the challenge that was suitable for him.
[00:05:49] [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, good.
[00:05:50] [SPEAKER_00]: We don't want the exact type of comps that he's talking about.
[00:05:54] [SPEAKER_00]: And it's nothing personal to him, you know.
[00:05:56] [SPEAKER_00]: But as long as that continues, that, you know, the comps are equitable, then I'm perfectly happy with it.
[00:06:04] [SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, I mean, I don't want to beat a dead horse because this has been talked about so much.
[00:06:09] [SPEAKER_03]: But I think the equitable level of comps.
[00:06:11] [SPEAKER_03]: And also, I like, I feel like already, and I don't want to, you know, I'm always worried.
[00:06:16] [SPEAKER_03]: Week one predictions about how season's going.
[00:06:18] [SPEAKER_03]: I'm very optimistic of the way it's been flowing.
[00:06:21] [SPEAKER_03]: I think the house, the casts.
[00:06:24] [SPEAKER_03]: So it's so dynamic that this extra twist makes the season a little, another level higher just so far.
[00:06:31] [SPEAKER_03]: We will see because you never know really who's safe.
[00:06:35] [SPEAKER_03]: So, yeah, I'm excited to see how it goes.
[00:06:37] [SPEAKER_03]: But, yeah, it didn't work in Matt's favor this time, even with all those competitions.
[00:06:40] [SPEAKER_03]: If this was any of the Big Brother 25 and back, he probably would have won one of those.
[00:06:44] [SPEAKER_03]: But, yeah, not 26.
[00:06:47] [SPEAKER_00]: Now, speaking of comps, you and I had predicted that Cedric and Chelsea, respectively, would be the first out.
[00:06:55] [SPEAKER_00]: And so when both of them got downgraded, those predictions were looking pretty good.
[00:07:01] [SPEAKER_00]: Like, what are the odds the two people we say are going to be first out?
[00:07:05] [SPEAKER_00]: Odds are high.
[00:07:06] [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, it's true.
[00:07:07] [SPEAKER_00]: We are pretty damn good at making our predictions.
[00:07:11] [SPEAKER_00]: But, you know, I was thinking, oh, they're toast.
[00:07:14] [SPEAKER_00]: One of them is toast because it would have been so easy for the first HOH to nominate them and send one of them packing.
[00:07:21] [SPEAKER_00]: And I do think in many cases that would have happened, but not with Angela.
[00:07:26] [SPEAKER_00]: You know, we don't know.
[00:07:28] [SPEAKER_03]: Not with Angela.
[00:07:28] [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
[00:07:29] [SPEAKER_00]: We don't know exactly what went down because the feeds weren't on yet.
[00:07:32] [SPEAKER_00]: But there was discussion of the House agreeing that Cedric and Chelsea should be safe from nomination this week.
[00:07:40] [SPEAKER_00]: Maybe you know something I don't.
[00:07:42] [SPEAKER_00]: It was never clear to me if they agreed on that after Angela won HOH or they talked about it beforehand.
[00:07:50] [SPEAKER_00]: But either way, it basically meant that Ainsley's downgrade of them was upgraded to one week of immunity.
[00:07:59] [SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, it's a tough call with that because it's one of those things where it's like in the Big Brother House, you write a lot of checks that, you know, that will bounce.
[00:08:07] [SPEAKER_03]: You know, so I wonder if that was a way just to show some form of camaraderie and then see what happens down the line.
[00:08:13] [SPEAKER_03]: But I will say this.
[00:08:15] [SPEAKER_03]: I know when we talked about Chelsea and Cedric, with Cedric specifically, I am very happy he did not go home first.
[00:08:20] [SPEAKER_03]: That was my worry was that because of the things he stacked against him, especially within when we the downgrade happened.
[00:08:28] [SPEAKER_03]: I was thinking, man, he's toast.
[00:08:30] [SPEAKER_03]: I am super happy.
[00:08:31] [SPEAKER_03]: Cedric has proven me wrong.
[00:08:32] [SPEAKER_03]: And also Chelsea.
[00:08:32] [SPEAKER_03]: I think they have shown their social gains in a really well way.
[00:08:37] [SPEAKER_03]: And keep in mind, we're writing these players based on the rules.
[00:08:39] [SPEAKER_03]: When we see the interviews, we get nothing else before then.
[00:08:42] [SPEAKER_03]: So I'm super happy, though, to see them kind of really play a game, which was really fun to watch this week, where in almost all other seasons, I think they're on the block in some shape or form of both of them escaping it.
[00:08:55] [SPEAKER_03]: Kudos to them.
[00:08:56] [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
[00:08:57] [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
[00:08:57] [SPEAKER_00]: I agree, you know, especially about Chelsea.
[00:08:59] [SPEAKER_00]: You know, the way she handled being downgraded, maneuvered herself socially and strategically, not to mention her daily camera chats where she showed she understands the game.
[00:09:09] [SPEAKER_00]: My opinion of her has improved tremendously.
[00:09:13] [SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.
[00:09:13] [SPEAKER_03]: No.
[00:09:14] [SPEAKER_03]: And I mean, here's the funny thing, though.
[00:09:16] [SPEAKER_03]: With Angela's HOH, it was just a level of chaos.
[00:09:19] [SPEAKER_03]: And remember what we said.
[00:09:20] [SPEAKER_03]: It's so hard to rank these players that they might get HOH-itis, the viral disease.
[00:09:27] [SPEAKER_03]: And David, I think if there's one thing we can agree about this, you know, today is that I think she got that virus.
[00:09:32] [SPEAKER_00]: No, no, I disagree.
[00:09:33] [SPEAKER_00]: She didn't get HOH-itis.
[00:09:35] [SPEAKER_00]: She got HOH-anoia.
[00:09:39] [SPEAKER_00]: That's a new one.
[00:09:40] [SPEAKER_03]: Put a copyright on that one.
[00:09:41] [SPEAKER_03]: I don't know.
[00:09:42] [SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.
[00:09:43] [SPEAKER_03]: Copyright now.
[00:09:44] [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
[00:09:45] [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
[00:09:46] [SPEAKER_00]: In the preview podcast, I said Angela was going to rely on her supposed detecting abilities and be too trusting because those abilities wouldn't work.
[00:09:56] [SPEAKER_00]: Turns out it was the exact opposite.
[00:09:58] [SPEAKER_00]: She relied on them, but they were always detecting lies.
[00:10:01] [SPEAKER_00]: It was like taking a lie detector test.
[00:10:03] [SPEAKER_00]: And no matter what you said, it was going like this, you know.
[00:10:06] [SPEAKER_00]: And so she found lies and plots and conspiracies to the point that she drove herself crazy about every conversation that went on in the house.
[00:10:19] [SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.
[00:10:20] [SPEAKER_03]: I mean, we're going to get into it.
[00:10:44] [SPEAKER_03]: I think the question will be with Matt going home.
[00:10:51] [SPEAKER_03]: I think the first week, and I'm very interested to see how it rolled out.
[00:10:54] [SPEAKER_03]: So regardless of the HOH, if Angela goes out next week, I'm still happy how what week came out.
[00:11:01] [SPEAKER_03]: I will never trade a first week HOH of Angela for nothing else.
[00:11:05] [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
[00:11:05] [SPEAKER_00]: I do want to mention my winner pick Quinn.
[00:11:08] [SPEAKER_00]: I am happy to have made him that pick.
[00:11:13] [SPEAKER_00]: He's been showing he understands the game.
[00:11:15] [SPEAKER_00]: He got the best upgrade.
[00:11:18] [SPEAKER_00]: He made a reference to Corey's reference to Zach, you know, showing that he is really a fan.
[00:11:28] [SPEAKER_00]: Uh, the only thing he has done that I don't like is that he told Angela and Joseph about his upgrade.
[00:11:36] [SPEAKER_00]: That was definitely a mistake.
[00:11:38] [SPEAKER_00]: And now he's starting to realize it like, okay, you've got the super secret, amazing power.
[00:11:44] [SPEAKER_00]: Why are you telling Angela like a day later or two days later or whatever?
[00:11:48] [SPEAKER_00]: Stop it.
[00:11:49] [SPEAKER_03]: I feel like the power as big brother gives they, if they're not truly utilizing the way they want it the season before, they're like, you know what?
[00:11:56] [SPEAKER_03]: Let's upgrade this power and make it stronger next power.
[00:11:59] [SPEAKER_03]: And Quinn is the benefactor of that.
[00:12:01] [SPEAKER_03]: His power is so strong.
[00:12:04] [SPEAKER_03]: And I mean, David, you want to explain really quickly the ability for anybody who might not know it?
[00:12:08] [SPEAKER_00]: I mean, the ability is to flip everything upside down.
[00:12:11] [SPEAKER_00]: I mean, I would think that people know by now if they're if they're listening to the podcast.
[00:12:15] [SPEAKER_00]: But yeah, it's to, you know, take away someone's HOH and completely make it his own while while they pretend it's still the other HOH,
[00:12:25] [SPEAKER_00]: which I don't think will fool anyone, but okay.
[00:12:29] [SPEAKER_00]: But I mean, compared to the power that McKenzie got, I mean, it's just it's a hundred times better.
[00:12:36] [SPEAKER_03]: Oh, so powerful.
[00:12:38] [SPEAKER_03]: And yeah, with that power, I mean, they're in a good position right now.
[00:12:43] [SPEAKER_03]: My winner pick, I was swaffling between Leah and Ticor.
[00:12:49] [SPEAKER_03]: And, you know, both of them have shown promise in ways.
[00:12:53] [SPEAKER_03]: So right now is playing a much more lay low game.
[00:12:55] [SPEAKER_03]: I'm a little concerned, but it's an initial week.
[00:12:58] [SPEAKER_03]: So hopefully we can kind of keep it going, especially with, you know, who hopefully wins HOH.
[00:13:04] [SPEAKER_03]: What happens there?
[00:13:05] [SPEAKER_03]: I think, you know, we'll see what happens there.
[00:13:07] [SPEAKER_03]: But yeah, it might be a little low lay low game.
[00:13:10] [SPEAKER_03]: And it's the investment for the long run.
[00:13:12] [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
[00:13:13] [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
[00:13:14] [SPEAKER_00]: All right.
[00:13:14] [SPEAKER_00]: Is there anything else you want to discuss about the players before we get to our regular segment?
[00:13:20] [SPEAKER_03]: I think I'm ready for the regular segment because I'll get the drum more out.
[00:13:25] [SPEAKER_00]: That's right.
[00:13:26] [SPEAKER_00]: It is time for our first Julie Chen Moonves is wrong about blank segment of the season.
[00:13:33] [SPEAKER_00]: And it's a two parter.
[00:13:35] [SPEAKER_00]: The first part actually comes from the preseason, but it happened after we did our preseason podcast.
[00:13:41] [SPEAKER_00]: Julie said in a pregame interview with Mike Bloom, don't study any past seasons.
[00:13:47] [SPEAKER_00]: And this, of course, is horrible advice.
[00:13:50] [SPEAKER_00]: Do not listen to Julie about anything strategy related.
[00:13:52] [SPEAKER_00]: Do not listen to her about this.
[00:13:54] [SPEAKER_00]: I know there are always different twists, different people every year.
[00:13:58] [SPEAKER_00]: But players should definitely study past seasons because that's the way you figure out trends and you can be prepared to get ahead of things.
[00:14:06] [SPEAKER_00]: The third rule that we'll talk about, you know, being flexible specifically addresses things like this by noting how important it is because Big Brother is a game filled with twists that will shake it up.
[00:14:18] [SPEAKER_00]: And in the process, shake up all your intended strategies, too.
[00:14:22] [SPEAKER_00]: So you can't just expect the unexpected.
[00:14:25] [SPEAKER_00]: You have to plan for the unexpected.
[00:14:27] [SPEAKER_00]: And you do that by looking back at past seasons.
[00:14:31] [SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, that's probably one of the most common advice you'll get from any past house guest or player on any type of these shows is you want to watch and study.
[00:14:40] [SPEAKER_03]: I mean, like any test, right?
[00:14:42] [SPEAKER_03]: Whether it's the ACT, SAT, your GRE, whatever type of thing.
[00:14:46] [SPEAKER_03]: It'd be wild to go in there and expect a great performance without doing any of homework before.
[00:14:52] [SPEAKER_03]: Because especially now with your cast, everyone is studying before it.
[00:14:55] [SPEAKER_03]: Everyone has forms of game theory.
[00:14:57] [SPEAKER_03]: You're just kind of at a disadvantage there.
[00:14:59] [SPEAKER_00]: Well, I don't know about everyone.
[00:15:00] [SPEAKER_00]: There's a bunch of people on this cast who do not.
[00:15:02] [SPEAKER_00]: I mean, there was I posted a tick tock of, you know, like about four of them, I think, sitting in one of the rooms being like, what are live feeds?
[00:15:13] [SPEAKER_00]: I don't understand what live feeds are.
[00:15:14] [SPEAKER_00]: What do they show on live feeds?
[00:15:16] [SPEAKER_00]: Are they showing this room right now?
[00:15:18] [SPEAKER_00]: You know, and then, oh, my gosh.
[00:15:21] [SPEAKER_00]: How can you go on Big Brother?
[00:15:22] [SPEAKER_00]: And I understand not everyone is a live feed viewer.
[00:15:26] [SPEAKER_00]: Totally get that.
[00:15:28] [SPEAKER_00]: And that's fine.
[00:15:30] [SPEAKER_00]: But you should know what the live feeds are.
[00:15:32] [SPEAKER_00]: If you're going to play the game.
[00:15:37] [SPEAKER_03]: I mean, you would think it's self-explanatory, but we'll always get some people that will never.
[00:15:42] [SPEAKER_03]: I mean, I think it's better, at least now, of the fans that we get cast versus the just random people that are taking off the street a week beforehand.
[00:15:50] [SPEAKER_00]: So you'd think.
[00:15:52] [SPEAKER_00]: But like I said, they just had that conversation.
[00:15:54] [SPEAKER_00]: So getting back to what Julie's wrong about instead of what the cast is wrong about.
[00:15:59] [SPEAKER_00]: After the first two episodes aired, Julie was asked by Entertainment Weekly about the players not wanting to vote fake Ainsley into the game.
[00:16:08] [SPEAKER_00]: And she said, don't you realize you should always do the opposite of what seems smart in the BB house?
[00:16:15] [SPEAKER_00]: Okay.
[00:16:15] [SPEAKER_00]: Seriously.
[00:16:16] [SPEAKER_00]: Seriously, Julie.
[00:16:17] [SPEAKER_00]: The host is advocating purposely making dumb moves.
[00:16:22] [SPEAKER_00]: After production punished people who made smart moves.
[00:16:26] [SPEAKER_00]: So I guess this is, you know, why, you know, Julie and producers are wrong about Blake.
[00:16:32] [SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, that one's a frustrating twist.
[00:16:34] [SPEAKER_03]: I mean, I know it was a while ago.
[00:16:36] [SPEAKER_03]: It was on the premiere.
[00:16:37] [SPEAKER_03]: We just didn't get a chance to talk about it.
[00:16:38] [SPEAKER_03]: But it just frustrated me because I don't think as players in the game, especially in the beginning, anyone should ever be penalized for making a decision that's best for their game.
[00:16:45] [SPEAKER_03]: I wish there was a different type of consequence there.
[00:16:49] [SPEAKER_03]: But yeah, I mean, I don't know.
[00:16:50] [SPEAKER_03]: Maybe she's Julie saying these type of things because she knows we have a segment at this point and she wants to give us good material.
[00:16:56] [SPEAKER_03]: You know, maybe she's truly a huge fan of YX loss.
[00:16:59] [SPEAKER_03]: She loves David Bloomberg.
[00:17:01] [SPEAKER_00]: So, yes, I'm sure that is it.
[00:17:03] [SPEAKER_00]: I'm sure.
[00:17:04] [SPEAKER_00]: Well, if if anyone out there loves this podcast and the survivor version of this podcast, as much as Julie apparently does, according to Ovi, you can show that love by getting a poster.
[00:17:17] [SPEAKER_00]: Now, again, that is the survivor version.
[00:17:20] [SPEAKER_00]: You know, we we don't have a poster for the Big Brother version, but it's similar.
[00:17:27] [SPEAKER_00]: And there's also the poster on a T-shirt and the checklist on a T-shirt.
[00:17:33] [SPEAKER_00]: Again, similar to Big Brother version, but not exactly identical.
[00:17:38] [SPEAKER_00]: We're working on it.
[00:17:39] [SPEAKER_00]: We do what we can here.
[00:17:41] [SPEAKER_00]: And so you can get that by going to Rob, his website dot com slash YX lost feed.
[00:17:48] [SPEAKER_00]: Scroll down and, you know, click buy.
[00:17:52] [SPEAKER_00]: Enjoy.
[00:17:56] [SPEAKER_03]: I gave me one of those.
[00:17:58] [SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.
[00:17:58] [SPEAKER_03]: You don't have one.
[00:17:59] [SPEAKER_03]: Not yet.
[00:18:00] [SPEAKER_03]: I was hoping I'm holding off with many other fans for our season.
[00:18:06] [SPEAKER_03]: Our Big Brother.
[00:18:07] [SPEAKER_03]: OK.
[00:18:08] [SPEAKER_03]: We're going to be working on.
[00:18:09] [SPEAKER_00]: All right.
[00:18:11] [SPEAKER_00]: Well.
[00:18:13] [SPEAKER_00]: Matt acknowledged in an interview that he was, quote, a really bad Big Brother player.
[00:18:22] [SPEAKER_00]: In his final episode, he wondered, why me?
[00:18:26] [SPEAKER_00]: And also asked, what more can I do?
[00:18:29] [SPEAKER_00]: Lucky for Matt, we're here to answer those questions.
[00:18:32] [SPEAKER_00]: So why was it him?
[00:18:34] [SPEAKER_00]: What should he have done differently?
[00:18:36] [SPEAKER_00]: It's time to figure out why Matt lost.
[00:18:40] [SPEAKER_00]: And we start, of course, with rule number one, which is to scheme and plot.
[00:18:45] [SPEAKER_00]: Matt definitely did that.
[00:18:48] [SPEAKER_00]: He created a number of alliances, including a large one called the Barbershop that was abbreviated as BS, which was very appropriate.
[00:18:57] [SPEAKER_00]: But Matt thought overall he was doing a pretty amazing job of getting people on his side.
[00:19:03] [SPEAKER_00]: And he admitted in his interviews that he was surprised to be evicted.
[00:19:07] [SPEAKER_00]: A large part of the reason for this will come up in our discussion of rule two in a couple minutes here.
[00:19:12] [SPEAKER_00]: But aside from that, it just seemed like he was overly trusting.
[00:19:16] [SPEAKER_00]: If someone told him he had their vote, he believed them.
[00:19:20] [SPEAKER_00]: When Tucker told him he'd go up as a replacement nominee pawn in Matt's place.
[00:19:26] [SPEAKER_00]: He bought it.
[00:19:28] [SPEAKER_00]: He talked about wanting to play an honest game.
[00:19:32] [SPEAKER_00]: Do you think that he believed that others were playing this honest game as well?
[00:19:37] [SPEAKER_00]: Or was he just naive and gullible?
[00:19:40] [SPEAKER_03]: You know, it's really interesting, especially with week one evictions.
[00:19:45] [SPEAKER_03]: Many times we kind of view their evictions as it's kind of a factors out of their control.
[00:19:52] [SPEAKER_03]: There's certain things they controlled for sure.
[00:19:54] [SPEAKER_03]: But it's kind of the house will to get them out.
[00:19:58] [SPEAKER_03]: Matt's is very interesting because there's a lot of factors.
[00:20:01] [SPEAKER_03]: And I think there's going to be a lot of overlap as we go through these rules about what factors did Matt control and what were kind of against him.
[00:20:07] [SPEAKER_03]: Because it was kind of like an unstoppable wall versus a – or what was it?
[00:20:11] [SPEAKER_03]: A movable wall versus an unstoppable force.
[00:20:13] [SPEAKER_03]: And that was Angela and Matt.
[00:20:15] [SPEAKER_03]: And Matt's scheme and plot, and like you said, was there the naivety?
[00:20:20] [SPEAKER_03]: I feel like Matt – and you can really see it from his interviews before and even after.
[00:20:25] [SPEAKER_03]: Matt is very eloquent with his words.
[00:20:27] [SPEAKER_03]: He's very charming when he can talk about things with some preparation.
[00:20:32] [SPEAKER_03]: And even when he's talking one-on-one, I think people kind of get lulled into the Matt aura.
[00:20:39] [SPEAKER_03]: But I – so I think that has happened for him in the past.
[00:20:43] [SPEAKER_03]: He's objectively a good-looking guy.
[00:20:45] [SPEAKER_03]: He's one of – like he's a tall man in there.
[00:20:47] [SPEAKER_03]: He has his charm.
[00:20:48] [SPEAKER_03]: So I was – I think he might have felt – because in other experiences in his life, it's worked well for him.
[00:20:53] [SPEAKER_03]: That was going to work well in the beginning portions of the house.
[00:20:57] [SPEAKER_03]: And I don't think he thought of it as a possibility that people would be perceiving him and his scheming and plotting as like, hmm, I don't like this.
[00:21:05] [SPEAKER_03]: You know?
[00:21:07] [SPEAKER_03]: So I want to say – because in his – I want to say there's some self-awareness there.
[00:21:11] [SPEAKER_03]: But within the house, I just don't think he came – understood how he came across in there.
[00:21:15] [SPEAKER_03]: Right.
[00:21:15] [SPEAKER_03]: When he was scheming and plotting all around.
[00:21:17] [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
[00:21:18] [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I agree.
[00:21:19] [SPEAKER_00]: And I – I mean you said that there was times where he was talking to people and everything.
[00:21:23] [SPEAKER_00]: I feel like most of those times the other people came away from those conversations being like, oh my god, how did I end up talking to him for that long?
[00:21:32] [SPEAKER_00]: You know, because he kept talking about how he was a professional communicator.
[00:21:37] [SPEAKER_00]: He communicates.
[00:21:38] [SPEAKER_00]: He communicates.
[00:21:39] [SPEAKER_00]: I don't feel like we saw that.
[00:21:41] [SPEAKER_00]: You know?
[00:21:42] [SPEAKER_00]: I feel like most of the people were humoring him more than communicating with him.
[00:21:51] [SPEAKER_00]: Now, one reason for that is – takes us to the second rule, which says not to scheme and plot too much and to keep your scheming secret.
[00:22:00] [SPEAKER_00]: And, you know, as I already referenced, this is a big reason a lot of his plotting failed.
[00:22:05] [SPEAKER_00]: That secret part is certainly an issue here.
[00:22:09] [SPEAKER_00]: Now, the first thing many of us noticed, or one of the first things, when the live feeds came up, was that Matt was in the storage room for a really long time as other people went in and out.
[00:22:20] [SPEAKER_00]: And he was wheeling and dealing with them.
[00:22:22] [SPEAKER_00]: But the problem wasn't that we noticed.
[00:22:26] [SPEAKER_00]: It was that many of the other players noticed, especially HOH Angela.
[00:22:31] [SPEAKER_00]: And just in case she missed anything, other players like Chelsea and Joseph were all too happy to point it out.
[00:22:38] [SPEAKER_00]: Hey, look.
[00:22:38] [SPEAKER_00]: Look what he's doing.
[00:22:39] [SPEAKER_00]: Look what he's doing there.
[00:22:40] [SPEAKER_00]: You know what he talked to about me?
[00:22:42] [SPEAKER_00]: So, yeah.
[00:22:44] [SPEAKER_03]: It's interesting because he addresses that in his post-interviews as well about the storage room where he kind of talks about that.
[00:22:50] [SPEAKER_03]: He was there for, I guess, for some sort of like – he was waiting for production to get shot or something like that, or maybe some medicine.
[00:22:57] [SPEAKER_03]: So that's where he was waiting for at.
[00:23:00] [SPEAKER_03]: And so because of that, people were coming in and out.
[00:23:02] [SPEAKER_03]: I didn't really get that as much.
[00:23:04] [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, he said something about he was waiting for immunity.
[00:23:07] [SPEAKER_00]: And I'm thinking that's the wrong game.
[00:23:09] [SPEAKER_00]: That's Survivor.
[00:23:12] [SPEAKER_00]: So, yeah, I don't know what he was talking about.
[00:23:15] [SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, because usually that's the door where you're supposed to – I mean, if you're going to get some medicine, you go upstairs, diary room, and get some things there.
[00:23:23] [SPEAKER_03]: Storage room, they'll leave you, you think.
[00:23:24] [SPEAKER_03]: So I don't know if he was just trying to wait for something from there.
[00:23:27] [SPEAKER_03]: He told them, they said, hey, just chill here.
[00:23:28] [SPEAKER_03]: And people were kind of revolving door.
[00:23:30] [SPEAKER_03]: That's what he was saying, that he didn't realize it was going to receive the way it was.
[00:23:34] [SPEAKER_03]: But with all that in mind, I mean, the over-scheming here, I think here's the issue, right?
[00:23:37] [SPEAKER_03]: I mean, by day three, people kind of already knew that he was on the outs in certain ways just because of his conversations with MJ and other people getting out, that he was very strong about targeting Angela.
[00:23:49] [SPEAKER_03]: And I think that's going to be something we talk about a lot is that did her paranoia come out of nowhere where the edit really – a lot of the people who just watched the episodes would be thinking, man, Matt, did he really do anything that bad?
[00:24:02] [SPEAKER_03]: And I don't think, honestly, he did anything too bad.
[00:24:06] [SPEAKER_03]: But I do think he did just enough that where the paranoia wasn't out of anywhere.
[00:24:11] [SPEAKER_03]: He was targeting Angela hard.
[00:24:13] [SPEAKER_03]: Out of any person he was trying to get to, it was her.
[00:24:15] [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, which is always the smartest thing to do is target the – talk about targeting the H&H before she's even made her nominations.
[00:24:22] [SPEAKER_00]: That is a super smart thing to do in Big Brother.
[00:24:26] [SPEAKER_00]: Number one rule.
[00:24:27] [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
[00:24:28] [SPEAKER_03]: Or number zero rule.
[00:24:29] [SPEAKER_03]: That should be our number zero rule.
[00:24:31] [SPEAKER_00]: I mean, yeah, during that time, he made various alliances.
[00:24:34] [SPEAKER_00]: He spilled information about some of his alliances.
[00:24:39] [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
[00:24:40] [SPEAKER_00]: Like you said, he talked about in his interviews, especially the one with Mike Bloom, he didn't really have a good answer as to whether he was worried he was overplaying.
[00:24:50] [SPEAKER_00]: And he said his perspective was that people would just come up to him and they'd talk, which, yeah, tells me that he did not understand how other people perceived him.
[00:25:00] [SPEAKER_00]: And the answer to Mike's question was no, the concept of overplaying really did not occur to him.
[00:25:06] [SPEAKER_03]: No, and it's really frustrating in the sense that if so many seasons, the person who's kind of a little bit more passive on the first week or other things, they're the ones going home because the easy house pick.
[00:25:17] [SPEAKER_03]: Matt was not an easy house pick.
[00:25:19] [SPEAKER_03]: He already had allies there who – some of them ready to turn against him, but he wasn't the typical pick that you would want to get blood on your hands, you know?
[00:25:26] [SPEAKER_03]: He really set his bed on fire because he overplayed so much.
[00:25:33] [SPEAKER_03]: He kept trying to make communications.
[00:25:34] [SPEAKER_03]: If you hear something in the background, it's my dog's – dog food coming out of his feeders.
[00:25:38] [SPEAKER_03]: Apologies on that.
[00:25:40] [SPEAKER_03]: But, yeah, I mean he just continuously didn't realize – and I think that's to make sure we – David, we were talking about before, the self-awareness, right, of knowing that this is how you'll be perceived.
[00:25:49] [SPEAKER_03]: And then, two, trying to rein that back.
[00:25:52] [SPEAKER_03]: I mean never reining that back.
[00:25:54] [SPEAKER_03]: Right.
[00:25:55] [SPEAKER_00]: Like it's frustrating to know.
[00:25:58] [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I mean in all his interviews, he talked about wanting to play openly and honesty and put his cards on the table and yada, yada, yada, all of which are terrible ideas and go against keeping your scheming secret.
[00:26:09] [SPEAKER_00]: And one perfect example of the reason why was something else Mike asked him about regarding how he suggested to Angela that she nominate T-Corps or Tucker as a pawn instead of him.
[00:26:24] [SPEAKER_00]: But then he went and told Tucker that he had suggested that, which pissed Tucker off so much that he was a major force behind Matt's eviction, although that didn't make it to our TV sets.
[00:26:36] [SPEAKER_00]: But in response to Mike's question, Matt said he just wanted to be honest, just like he would in the real world.
[00:26:47] [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, great.
[00:26:47] [SPEAKER_00]: This isn't the real world.
[00:26:49] [SPEAKER_00]: Okay?
[00:26:49] [SPEAKER_00]: And the worst part is he said in his pregame interviews, one reason that you and I thought he would do well was he knew what they signed up for.
[00:26:59] [SPEAKER_00]: And while he cares about his character in the real world, here he would lie and manipulate to get to the end.
[00:27:05] [SPEAKER_00]: And then he didn't do that.
[00:27:08] [SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.
[00:27:10] [SPEAKER_03]: He really played very differently than are, you know, are his pre-interviews kinds.
[00:27:15] [SPEAKER_03]: And I mean, that's kind of the name of the game, right?
[00:27:16] [SPEAKER_03]: How much you can talk about, I mean, and how can you really do it in the action?
[00:27:20] [SPEAKER_03]: And that was a frustrating thing because he talked about having a self-awareness of how he might come off.
[00:27:25] [SPEAKER_03]: Yes.
[00:27:25] [SPEAKER_03]: Talked about wanting to lie in the seat.
[00:27:28] [SPEAKER_03]: And then doing all these things where if there was anybody, and here's the one, like he didn't keep anything secret when he was trying to backstab or things like that.
[00:27:36] [SPEAKER_03]: When you go around somebody, there's 16 people here, you know, telling one person really, you know, sets a fire, a wildfire within the house.
[00:27:44] [SPEAKER_03]: And he really just kept on telling people who weren't even within his alliances, really.
[00:27:50] [SPEAKER_03]: People that didn't need to know this information.
[00:27:52] [SPEAKER_03]: I mean, and if people just watch, you know, the episodes, the premiere, things like that, they might have missed a lot.
[00:27:57] [SPEAKER_03]: But even if you look at the premiere, literally they show it where day one, night one, he's trying to talk to Kenny about, I don't know how I feel about Angela.
[00:28:05] [SPEAKER_03]: I'm getting really bad.
[00:28:05] [SPEAKER_03]: Like there's no reason to have those conversations about who you're not feeling good about at that point when you can just build a connection with them instead of that.
[00:28:15] [SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.
[00:28:15] [SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.
[00:28:16] [SPEAKER_00]: There was also a conversation that he had on the live feeds, I think is appropriate to mention here.
[00:28:22] [SPEAKER_00]: He said he doesn't like floaters.
[00:28:25] [SPEAKER_00]: He meant coasters, but okay.
[00:28:27] [SPEAKER_00]: And he would never play like that.
[00:28:30] [SPEAKER_00]: And we certainly saw that.
[00:28:32] [SPEAKER_00]: He was playing hard.
[00:28:33] [SPEAKER_00]: He was staying in the forefront of everyone's mind.
[00:28:36] [SPEAKER_00]: And he was out first.
[00:28:38] [SPEAKER_00]: So, hey, Matt, maybe there's a reason that people play that type of game.
[00:28:45] [SPEAKER_00]: Especially, I mean, week one.
[00:28:46] [SPEAKER_03]: I mean, that's the thing.
[00:28:47] [SPEAKER_03]: It was really handed to him in the sense of like, you have two people who already have downgrades.
[00:28:54] [SPEAKER_03]: You already are making connections in here.
[00:28:57] [SPEAKER_03]: Why don't we just lay low?
[00:28:59] [SPEAKER_03]: We don't need to push the gavel.
[00:29:01] [SPEAKER_03]: And I think here's an issue with a lot of people, specifically a lot of men going into the house, right, who have big personalities.
[00:29:07] [SPEAKER_03]: They feel like they have to enforce their will to change the game immediately.
[00:29:15] [SPEAKER_03]: And that's kind of the issue.
[00:29:17] [SPEAKER_03]: I think we see that with the players in general who do the best.
[00:29:20] [SPEAKER_03]: They understand when's the time to like take a move, when to push a little bit, when to pull.
[00:29:25] [SPEAKER_03]: You don't need to do it all in the beginning.
[00:29:27] [SPEAKER_03]: And I think that was kind of the frustrating thing to see from him where he just felt so gungly because he had all the tools to set him up in a good way.
[00:29:36] [SPEAKER_03]: Sometimes it's your cast that does it in for you.
[00:29:38] [SPEAKER_03]: And sometimes it's really just you yourself or a combination of it.
[00:29:41] [SPEAKER_03]: And yeah.
[00:29:43] [SPEAKER_00]: All right.
[00:29:43] [SPEAKER_00]: Well, we can go to the third row, which talks about the need to be flexible.
[00:29:47] [SPEAKER_00]: This is kind of a gimme, but I'll lob it over to you.
[00:29:51] [SPEAKER_00]: What do you think about Matt here?
[00:29:52] [SPEAKER_00]: You kind of just answered it, actually.
[00:29:55] [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
[00:29:57] [SPEAKER_03]: Well, there's one point I kind of wanted to make because I don't know where to put this in here.
[00:30:01] [SPEAKER_03]: And I feel like this is a good one to put there.
[00:30:04] [SPEAKER_03]: One thing I really wanted to see him do, be flexible with all the things like when you already know the H, which is like having you targeted there.
[00:30:12] [SPEAKER_03]: You're now the after veto.
[00:30:14] [SPEAKER_03]: You're up on there and you only have one chance to save yourself.
[00:30:18] [SPEAKER_03]: Don't rely on that portion.
[00:30:19] [SPEAKER_03]: Don't rely on that portion.
[00:30:20] [SPEAKER_03]: Be like being so confident the whole house will stay with him.
[00:30:23] [SPEAKER_03]: His connections were being like he said that was the one he felt the most betrayed about because of their shared connection and their heritage that they wouldn't throw each other out from his words.
[00:30:32] [SPEAKER_03]: Why don't you go to your closest person to MJ and just say, hey, it's time to use that power.
[00:30:37] [SPEAKER_03]: Not good for her game.
[00:30:38] [SPEAKER_03]: But at that point, you can convince her, you know, be flexible in the sense that say, hey, this is what we need to maneuver.
[00:30:43] [SPEAKER_03]: We need to be too strong in the house, not one off because they're going to pick you off right next.
[00:30:48] [SPEAKER_03]: Use this power.
[00:30:49] [SPEAKER_03]: We can flip the game on his head already and take control.
[00:30:52] [SPEAKER_03]: And that's really what I wanted to see from Matt to make her or convince her to use that power.
[00:30:56] [SPEAKER_03]: Maybe she would have said no, but he was also the one saying, hold off on the power.
[00:31:01] [SPEAKER_03]: I think we should be good.
[00:31:02] [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
[00:31:02] [SPEAKER_00]: I don't know if he would have been able to convince her.
[00:31:05] [SPEAKER_00]: Maybe.
[00:31:06] [SPEAKER_00]: Maybe not.
[00:31:06] [SPEAKER_00]: I mean, she knows.
[00:31:08] [SPEAKER_00]: Now I can save it for myself, you know?
[00:31:10] [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
[00:31:10] [SPEAKER_00]: Um, so yeah, that would have been a tough one, but he did definitely show only one way of play and he wasn't going to alter it no matter what happened.
[00:31:25] [SPEAKER_00]: Uh, he saw what happened with Angela and instead of realizing the same thing you said that maybe he, she wasn't alone in her feelings.
[00:31:33] [SPEAKER_00]: He just assumed that she was on an Island and he was fine with everyone and didn't change at all.
[00:31:41] [SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.
[00:31:42] [SPEAKER_03]: I just, and I, I hope they show it maybe the Sunday episode of how other people might've had feelings.
[00:31:48] [SPEAKER_03]: I think they showed after the conversation, you know, uh, after that, uh, tyrant of, uh, Angela on him, I iconic speech.
[00:31:55] [SPEAKER_03]: I think we're going to have in our heads for a very long time to come.
[00:31:59] [SPEAKER_03]: I think it showed that all these people are like, Ooh, I don't know how I feel about her.
[00:32:03] [SPEAKER_03]: I'm on that side.
[00:32:03] [SPEAKER_03]: And I think there's some people were like, this feels strange, but also they're like, I'm glad the target's not on me.
[00:32:08] [SPEAKER_03]: Maybe we should shift it over there.
[00:32:10] [SPEAKER_03]: I hope they show a little bit more of that because yes, Angela got a lot of heat on herself, but she brought entirety of the heat over to Matt.
[00:32:17] [SPEAKER_03]: And that's why we saw most people being like, all right, I think we should just get him out now.
[00:32:20] [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
[00:32:21] Yeah.
[00:32:22] [SPEAKER_00]: All right.
[00:32:22] [SPEAKER_00]: Well, the fourth rule says players shouldn't let their emotions control them.
[00:32:25] [SPEAKER_00]: And while there weren't many specific actions Matt took that were affected by his emotions, I do think some of what he said and did were impacted.
[00:32:32] [SPEAKER_00]: Uh, for example, the way he brought up his mom when Angela was ranting at him and then got mad that she said stuff about his mom in response.
[00:32:41] [SPEAKER_00]: I mean, let me just say, should she have said it?
[00:32:43] [SPEAKER_00]: No, but he was the one who brought it up.
[00:32:46] [SPEAKER_00]: I don't think she ever would have thought to bring up his mom until he did.
[00:32:54] [SPEAKER_00]: And so it's like, you know, maybe don't do that.
[00:32:58] [SPEAKER_00]: Um, and then he mentioned her again in further discussion with Angela and basically wanted her to specifically apologize to his mom in front of the whole house.
[00:33:08] [SPEAKER_00]: Um, now, as far as game moves go, it was not a good one.
[00:33:12] [SPEAKER_00]: And he even essentially admitted it to Dalton Ross saying, I can take the criticism.
[00:33:17] [SPEAKER_00]: I've been called a lot worse than some of the things that Angela said about me, but thinking about it from my mom's perspective was definitely a breaking point for me and caused a lot of emotion to come out.
[00:33:27] [SPEAKER_00]: Um, it's like, yeah, you, you can't have that emotion come out.
[00:33:33] [SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, that's a tough one.
[00:33:34] [SPEAKER_03]: I think that's where I really lean on that.
[00:33:38] [SPEAKER_03]: I think Angela, a lot of the stuff she said was a bit unhinged.
[00:33:41] [SPEAKER_03]: And, uh, the idea that I, here's the thing is, do I think within the game, uh, I know this has been talked about a lot already, but do I think it was in the game?
[00:33:50] [SPEAKER_03]: Uh, was it smart move to come at Angela and threaten her within the game?
[00:33:53] [SPEAKER_03]: No, not a smart move whatsoever.
[00:33:55] [SPEAKER_03]: Breaks many of our rules.
[00:33:57] [SPEAKER_03]: I do think he kept it game related though, and didn't push it any further versus with Angela.
[00:34:03] [SPEAKER_03]: He was talking to her within the game, whether that's a smart decision or not, that's, you know, you can decide.
[00:34:08] [SPEAKER_03]: But Angela kind of took it to the next level of making things a lot personal.
[00:34:11] [SPEAKER_03]: And she made it seem that he threatened her in a way she felt kind of outside of the game, the way she explained it.
[00:34:17] [SPEAKER_03]: And then with the mom comments.
[00:34:19] [SPEAKER_03]: So I also understand at that point, Matt getting emotional in a sense.
[00:34:23] [SPEAKER_03]: I'm not going to discredit him and be like, Hey, like you shouldn't have.
[00:34:26] [SPEAKER_03]: I don't think it's the best for his game, but it does seem like, I mean, it hindered him for sure.
[00:34:31] [SPEAKER_03]: Right.
[00:34:31] [SPEAKER_03]: And what made it much more difficult from them forward.
[00:34:34] [SPEAKER_03]: I find that where Matt's emotion kind of took a little control, um, was probably his feelings for MJ.
[00:34:40] [SPEAKER_03]: I think because of him latching on to her so strongly, it being seen as a showmance quite quickly.
[00:34:46] [SPEAKER_03]: Um, and they weren't kind of, you know, usually weak when you try to like lay low on that.
[00:34:50] [SPEAKER_03]: They weren't, they were pretty overt about their feelings for one another.
[00:34:54] [SPEAKER_03]: Um, seeing as in his past interviews and his last comment comments to MJ leaving, he's like, I hope we can make something work outside the house.
[00:35:01] [SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.
[00:35:01] [SPEAKER_03]: I think those emotions fueled him and people saw that and they're like, Ooh, duo duo don't want that.
[00:35:08] [SPEAKER_00]: Well, yeah.
[00:35:08] [SPEAKER_00]: And I mean, they were still denying.
[00:35:10] [SPEAKER_00]: I mean, you know, there was a time when Angela went to apologize to, by the way, for people who don't know, who don't watch the feeds since McKenzie has not been renamed as MJ on the show yet.
[00:35:22] [SPEAKER_00]: Oh, sorry.
[00:35:22] [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
[00:35:23] [SPEAKER_00]: Um, she goes by MJ a lot.
[00:35:26] [SPEAKER_00]: Uh, so, um, but when Angela came in to apologize to her and, and then McKenzie said, well, you know, there were no alliances yet.
[00:35:38] [SPEAKER_00]: And Angela was like, come on, I know there were alliances.
[00:35:41] [SPEAKER_00]: And McKenzie was like, no, there were no alliances.
[00:35:43] [SPEAKER_00]: And Angela's like, I'm not going to stand here and let you lie to me.
[00:35:46] [SPEAKER_00]: So I'm going by love you.
[00:35:49] [SPEAKER_00]: Um, and so it was, yeah, I know this isn't the why McKenzie lost podcast because who knows how she will do, but I think it hurt both of them to, you know, be connected.
[00:36:01] [SPEAKER_00]: So obviously while also denying that they were.
[00:36:06] [SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.
[00:36:07] [SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.
[00:36:07] [SPEAKER_03]: I think it, I think this rule is going to be very fun to cover when it's Angela's turn.
[00:36:12] [SPEAKER_03]: Um, if she, unless she wins, maybe we won't have to, or some other players, because I think we're going to, we're going to see this, uh, the motions control a lot of these house guests.
[00:36:20] [SPEAKER_03]: All right.
[00:36:22] [SPEAKER_00]: Well, the fifth rule says players need to pretend to be nice and play the social game.
[00:36:26] [SPEAKER_00]: So what do you think about Matt in this regard?
[00:36:29] [SPEAKER_03]: You know, that's the thing is that I, I think he did pretend to play nice.
[00:36:34] [SPEAKER_03]: I think he did do his, uh, try playing a social game.
[00:36:37] [SPEAKER_03]: I just don't think he did it well, or it was seen to other people is that he was pretending.
[00:36:42] [SPEAKER_03]: That's the issue is when you pretend to be nice.
[00:36:44] [SPEAKER_03]: Um, they saw it as him completely just like inauthentic in his way.
[00:36:49] [SPEAKER_03]: He was communicating with people, um, whether it was or not in those moments.
[00:36:53] [SPEAKER_03]: I mean, Angela, for sure.
[00:36:54] [SPEAKER_00]: He's a professional communicator.
[00:36:56] [SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.
[00:36:57] [SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.
[00:36:57] [SPEAKER_03]: He, he should have taken that professional a little harder in that, uh, room with Angela, because I mean, I really just hard because we took kind of talking around.
[00:37:05] [SPEAKER_03]: We, we haven't said that specifically, but it was a conversation in that bedroom where he's quote unquote was in the game, threatening Angela.
[00:37:12] [SPEAKER_03]: That really sunk his ship when he didn't have to like, you're in a such a place.
[00:37:16] [SPEAKER_03]: And I think that's, doesn't matter what your social game is there.
[00:37:18] [SPEAKER_03]: That's what tanked him, you know, his social game, him talking.
[00:37:21] [SPEAKER_03]: If he didn't have that conversation with Angela, I think he survives because he is at this point kind of safe.
[00:37:27] [SPEAKER_03]: And he's telling her, you know, and he explains the law.
[00:37:30] [SPEAKER_03]: I was telling her like, you know, uh, pro quick pro I'm going to shoot, shoot at you.
[00:37:33] [SPEAKER_03]: If you shoot at me and you know, I'll think I'm glad you didn't cause I'd have to take you down.
[00:37:37] [SPEAKER_03]: And it always makes it a little unnerving.
[00:37:38] [SPEAKER_03]: It's kind of like when you're, you know, when you meet somebody, they're like, well, yeah, if you did that to me, I was definitely going to like retaliate, get you down.
[00:37:44] [SPEAKER_03]: Yes.
[00:37:44] [SPEAKER_03]: We know that in the big brother game, but when you say that out loud, you open the Pandora's box.
[00:37:50] [SPEAKER_03]: Right.
[00:37:50] [SPEAKER_03]: Um, that allows it to be like, Ooh, okay.
[00:37:53] [SPEAKER_03]: Um, so yeah, uh, don't think he did the best right there.
[00:37:57] [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
[00:37:57] [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
[00:37:58] [SPEAKER_00]: I mean, he came into the game talking, um, a lot in his preseason interview about how he was going to form relationships.
[00:38:06] [SPEAKER_00]: He said things like he will bring his ability to connect with people and build trust and relationships really quickly.
[00:38:13] [SPEAKER_00]: And amusingly, he said a couple of times, he gets along really well with older people and he would lean into his strength of getting along with older people like a motherly figure.
[00:38:24] [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
[00:38:24] [SPEAKER_00]: That worked great with Angela.
[00:38:25] [SPEAKER_00]: Didn't that, that, that, that worked perfect there.
[00:38:28] [SPEAKER_00]: Um, now one other thing he said was, uh, that he knew he didn't make great first impressions.
[00:38:36] [SPEAKER_00]: And quote, when I first meet them, a lot of people tend to think, man, this guy is a douche.
[00:38:41] [SPEAKER_00]: This guy is a gym bro.
[00:38:42] [SPEAKER_00]: This guy is super into himself, which is just so not true about me.
[00:38:47] [SPEAKER_00]: So I know that being aware of that, I'm going to have to work against that really quickly.
[00:38:51] [SPEAKER_00]: But I don't think he worked against it at all.
[00:38:54] [SPEAKER_00]: Let alone really quickly.
[00:38:55] [SPEAKER_00]: He made comments to Angela about how much people like him.
[00:38:59] [SPEAKER_00]: He made comments, uh, that we saw in an episode that were similar and Chelsea made fun of him and confessional for being arrogant.
[00:39:07] [SPEAKER_00]: Uh, in fact, he even talked on live feeds about how he believed God was interfering in big brother to help him.
[00:39:14] [SPEAKER_00]: So arrogant.
[00:39:15] [SPEAKER_00]: And like I said, he didn't do a good job of changing people's mind about him.
[00:39:21] [SPEAKER_00]: Joseph literally said while voting that he didn't want the season to be like others.
[00:39:26] [SPEAKER_00]: And by that, he meant getting rid of the douchey gym bros.
[00:39:31] [SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.
[00:39:31] [SPEAKER_03]: I mean, there was one thing we might be talking differently.
[00:39:35] [SPEAKER_03]: You know, if his social game was, it was good in one aspect, you know, in one place where he peaked and that was with Kenny.
[00:39:43] [SPEAKER_03]: If he was able to get Kenny to self-evict right there.
[00:39:46] [SPEAKER_03]: So he stays there.
[00:39:47] [SPEAKER_03]: We might have to give it to him because he was an inch away.
[00:39:51] [SPEAKER_03]: Um, cause Kenny, for whatever reason, fell in love.
[00:39:53] [SPEAKER_03]: I shouldn't say for whatever reason, I think he was charmed by Matt.
[00:39:56] [SPEAKER_03]: And I think all those connections they had, you know, outside of life really made Kenny susceptible of it.
[00:40:02] [SPEAKER_03]: But yeah, I mean, I think we were just a few decisions away from Kenny being like, you know what?
[00:40:07] [SPEAKER_03]: Maybe I don't want to be in his house.
[00:40:08] [SPEAKER_03]: Matt, you stay here.
[00:40:09] [SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.
[00:40:10] [SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.
[00:40:10] [SPEAKER_03]: But yeah, it's, it's unfortunate because here's the thing is that with all that awareness he talked about prior to going on the show with those interviews we saw, if he was able to include those things and utilize his already previous connections that he could have with Kenny, his connections with McKenzie and et cetera, we really would have seen him be a social butterfly in there.
[00:40:31] [SPEAKER_03]: But alas, he did not.
[00:40:34] [SPEAKER_00]: No, no, he did not.
[00:40:36] [SPEAKER_00]: All right.
[00:40:36] [SPEAKER_00]: Well, the six rewards against being too much of a threat.
[00:40:39] [SPEAKER_00]: And there was a lot of discussion about Matt allegedly making threats against Angela, which of course would be a threat to her.
[00:40:49] [SPEAKER_00]: Now, was it really a threat?
[00:40:51] [SPEAKER_00]: You know, you've talked about this somewhat already.
[00:40:53] [SPEAKER_00]: I do think she definitely overreacted to it from my read of the situation, what he was saying, but also it was really stupid of him to say it.
[00:41:04] [SPEAKER_00]: Why would you bring those things up to the H.O.H.?
[00:41:06] [SPEAKER_00]: It was terrible gameplay threat or not.
[00:41:09] [SPEAKER_00]: And no matter what we think from outside the house, it's Angela's opinion that mattered.
[00:41:14] [SPEAKER_00]: And she took it as a threat.
[00:41:16] [SPEAKER_00]: And then she conveyed the same thing to the rest of the house.
[00:41:19] [SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, I mean, being a threat in the house is literally how you're perceived, right?
[00:41:24] [SPEAKER_03]: And he already kind of had some things going against him.
[00:41:27] [SPEAKER_03]: Him being kind of, you know, what could be viewed as a competition beast going into the house.
[00:41:33] [SPEAKER_03]: And then, you know, being part of the showman's part.
[00:41:36] [SPEAKER_03]: And then that last portion of it where he's, you know, within the game threatening Angela.
[00:41:42] [SPEAKER_03]: And I think one thing is, too, I mean, Angela did a really good job.
[00:41:45] [SPEAKER_03]: I mean, she I think she sunk her ship potentially in a little ways.
[00:41:47] [SPEAKER_03]: We'll see from in the beginning.
[00:41:49] [SPEAKER_03]: She was throwing kind of a little shade to him saying, oh, you're going to be in a showman.
[00:41:53] [SPEAKER_03]: You're going to be in a showman.
[00:41:53] [SPEAKER_03]: All these other things.
[00:41:54] [SPEAKER_00]: She was trying to she was trying to joke and it came off poorly.
[00:42:01] [SPEAKER_03]: Yes.
[00:42:01] [SPEAKER_03]: And I think here's the issue is that when Matt was seeing all this hearing feeling like he was being painted as threat.
[00:42:07] [SPEAKER_03]: He which he perceived kind of correct in ways that he kind of tried to fight fire with fire versus trying to neutralize it.
[00:42:14] [SPEAKER_03]: And he started that's when he started a campaign against Angela saying, oh, let's get her continue that versus maybe.
[00:42:19] [SPEAKER_03]: Maybe I mean, it's 2020.
[00:42:22] [SPEAKER_03]: But when those portions of it, the way we can, you know, for my POV, I can rate you is saying that you take a step back, trying to say, all right, hey, go to Angela.
[00:42:31] [SPEAKER_03]: Talk to like, I'm so sorry how this came across.
[00:42:33] [SPEAKER_03]: Let's figure this out.
[00:42:35] [SPEAKER_03]: You know, things like that.
[00:42:36] [SPEAKER_03]: But it didn't go well.
[00:42:39] [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
[00:42:39] [SPEAKER_00]: I mean, even when he was trying to convince people he wasn't a threat, he made himself sound like a threat.
[00:42:46] [SPEAKER_00]: He told Lisa that people think he's a physical and social threat, but he's not a threat if he's on their side.
[00:42:52] [SPEAKER_00]: And while it is true in a way and for the moment.
[00:42:56] [SPEAKER_00]: The way he said it.
[00:42:59] [SPEAKER_00]: Did not allay any worries that he was, in fact, a threat.
[00:43:03] [SPEAKER_00]: Of course, the funny thing is he showed he really isn't a strategic or social threat by acting like he was one in such a bad way that it helped get himself evicted.
[00:43:13] [SPEAKER_00]: But, you know, that's still the, you know, kind of came to bite himself circularly there.
[00:43:20] [SPEAKER_03]: And the last thing I'll say about this, too, your threat level two then will incredibly depend on it's not just about like who's in the house.
[00:43:28] [SPEAKER_03]: It's who's who are you on the block with?
[00:43:30] [SPEAKER_03]: And so when he's on the block with Kimo and Kenny and then Kimo gets himself off, your threat level is so high versus somebody who's like, I don't want to be here anymore.
[00:43:40] [SPEAKER_03]: You know, so you get yourself in that position.
[00:43:43] [SPEAKER_03]: You're in a real difficult part.
[00:43:45] [SPEAKER_03]: That's why, you know, we go back to it.
[00:43:46] [SPEAKER_03]: And again, I'm not sure exactly if McKenzie would have used that power, but I wish we saw a little bit more from him to try to convince her that, hey, let's actually look at this as a valid plan that we should use.
[00:43:58] [SPEAKER_03]: So, yeah.
[00:44:02] [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
[00:44:03] [SPEAKER_00]: The thing is, the other thing is, this just occurred to me.
[00:44:08] [SPEAKER_00]: She had to use it in the veto meeting.
[00:44:10] [SPEAKER_00]: So they would have had to talk about it before the veto meeting occurred.
[00:44:15] [SPEAKER_00]: And I think he at that point still may have thought that Tucker was volunteering himself as a pawn.
[00:44:22] [SPEAKER_03]: Okay.
[00:44:23] [SPEAKER_03]: I thought, was it the veto meeting?
[00:44:24] [SPEAKER_03]: I thought they would find out the day of the veto.
[00:44:27] [SPEAKER_00]: She uses it in the veto meeting and they don't find out who America voted for until Thursday.
[00:44:36] [SPEAKER_03]: Okay.
[00:44:37] [SPEAKER_03]: That makes a little bit more sense then too.
[00:44:39] [SPEAKER_03]: Well, I wish he tried to get it to her earlier then at that point.
[00:44:42] [SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.
[00:44:45] [SPEAKER_00]: All right.
[00:44:45] [SPEAKER_00]: We can go to the seventh rule, which says to trust almost nobody.
[00:44:48] [SPEAKER_00]: Considering that Matt admitted he was blindsided and thought he had the votes to stay, he clearly trusted too many people.
[00:44:55] [SPEAKER_00]: One among them, for example, was Brooklyn.
[00:44:58] [SPEAKER_00]: Now, he called her Mama Bee.
[00:45:00] [SPEAKER_00]: I mean, she's not that much older than him.
[00:45:03] [SPEAKER_00]: And, I mean, yes, she's a married mom, but she's not really much older than him.
[00:45:08] [SPEAKER_00]: So, but anyway, in interviews, he said that she talked about him as if he were a son in the house.
[00:45:16] [SPEAKER_00]: And then she voted him out.
[00:45:19] [SPEAKER_00]: You know, we previously talked about how he trusted Tucker.
[00:45:23] [SPEAKER_00]: Plus, he said in interviews that others told him they were definitely voting to keep him.
[00:45:27] [SPEAKER_00]: Now, of course, by the time those conversations were happening, it was too late.
[00:45:31] [SPEAKER_00]: The time when he shouldn't have trusted people was right at the beginning when he was making alliance after alliance in the storage room and thought nobody would figure it out or tell anyone.
[00:45:41] [SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, I mean, from his own words, he says this, you know, this was a blindside.
[00:45:44] [SPEAKER_03]: He didn't see this coming.
[00:45:45] [SPEAKER_03]: I think he talks about being most betrayed by Rubina, which we mentioned about because of, you know, their prior connections.
[00:45:51] [SPEAKER_03]: I mean, he had a lot of trust all across the board.
[00:45:54] [SPEAKER_03]: And I think week one, it's truly the week where people will like they will not, you know, put themselves out there for you, which is understandable within the game.
[00:46:04] [SPEAKER_03]: You know, how much are you going to sacrifice for an ally or somebody you just met?
[00:46:09] [SPEAKER_03]: Unless you're a dreamer there.
[00:46:10] [SPEAKER_00]: Unless you're Kenny.
[00:46:12] [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, unless you're Kenny.
[00:46:13] [SPEAKER_00]: And then you, you know, volunteer to sacrifice for someone that you've known for, as Quinn said, one week.
[00:46:20] [SPEAKER_03]: Like, yeah, I mean, just way too much there.
[00:46:24] [SPEAKER_03]: I mean, it's all across the board.
[00:46:25] [SPEAKER_03]: I mean, from trusting Angela in a way that this is your enemy and you're telling her what you're going to do to her within the game, you know, like all across.
[00:46:34] [SPEAKER_03]: And this is unfortunate because he was with his interviews, everything you talked about, he was talking about playing the exact opposite of how he played.
[00:46:42] [SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.
[00:46:42] [SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.
[00:46:44] [SPEAKER_00]: All right.
[00:46:44] [SPEAKER_00]: Well, it is about time to wrap things up.
[00:46:47] [SPEAKER_00]: So what are your final thoughts about Matt, Matt, Matt?
[00:46:52] [SPEAKER_03]: Oh, sometimes, you know, you know, say they say you can't judge a book by its cover.
[00:46:58] [SPEAKER_03]: And that might be true right here.
[00:47:00] [SPEAKER_03]: Unfortunately, on the other end of it, because we judged and I judged.
[00:47:04] [SPEAKER_03]: I rated Matt very high on the cover he showed us.
[00:47:07] [SPEAKER_03]: I'm very disappointed with the way he played, because in so many instances, there are factors for first week evictees or early evictees that they don't have the control over these factors to get far in the game.
[00:47:18] [SPEAKER_03]: Matt did.
[00:47:20] [SPEAKER_03]: Yes.
[00:47:20] [SPEAKER_03]: Yes.
[00:47:20] [SPEAKER_03]: Angelo was a big proponent of the reason why he went away from the house.
[00:47:24] [SPEAKER_03]: But I think he had multiple opportunities to save himself socially through an ally and then through competitions that most people would never have when they are put in that position.
[00:47:34] [SPEAKER_03]: Overall, the only person Matt can blame on going out of the house is on himself because of his poor gameplay in which he did not have the awareness to understand the threat level that he had already and was being perceived by the conversations he had.
[00:47:48] [SPEAKER_03]: For all these reasons, Matt is gone.
[00:47:51] [SPEAKER_03]: My ratings are very bad so far in this season.
[00:47:54] [SPEAKER_03]: He's tanked it.
[00:47:55] [SPEAKER_03]: And we'll see moving forward.
[00:47:56] [SPEAKER_03]: Hopefully, you know, my players can go forward.
[00:47:59] [SPEAKER_03]: Regardless of it, I think a very fun first week of Big Brother 26.
[00:48:03] [SPEAKER_00]: Yes.
[00:48:04] [SPEAKER_00]: Matt wanted to know why him and what could he have done differently?
[00:48:08] [SPEAKER_00]: Now, we just spent the last 45 minutes going over just some of the things to answer the second question.
[00:48:15] [SPEAKER_00]: But basically, don't scheme and over scheme so openly and obviously such that everybody knows what you're doing.
[00:48:23] [SPEAKER_00]: That is the main thing that drew people's eyes to him.
[00:48:27] [SPEAKER_00]: Not crazy eyes, just regular eyes.
[00:48:29] [SPEAKER_00]: Especially Angela in the midst of her HOH annoyance.
[00:48:32] [SPEAKER_00]: And then he just kept making it worse.
[00:48:35] [SPEAKER_00]: It wasn't enough to get Angela to apologize to him.
[00:48:38] [SPEAKER_00]: He wanted to write a script for her to use to apologize in front of everyone.
[00:48:44] [SPEAKER_00]: It wasn't enough that he had people talking to him.
[00:48:46] [SPEAKER_00]: He had to tell others that everyone was talking to him.
[00:48:50] [SPEAKER_00]: A good player could have taken Angela's outburst and turned it to their advantage, gaining sympathy and allies against her.
[00:48:57] [SPEAKER_00]: He attempted to get people to vote to keep him in order to stick it to Angela.
[00:49:03] [SPEAKER_00]: But he went about it in such a poor way that nobody bought it.
[00:49:07] [SPEAKER_00]: And part of that was his overall attitude.
[00:49:09] [SPEAKER_00]: In the preseason, Matt talked about leaning into his ability to make connections.
[00:49:14] [SPEAKER_00]: But he leaned too far and fell over because there was almost nothing supporting him in that area.
[00:49:19] [SPEAKER_00]: A lot more people were pushed away than brought in.
[00:49:22] [SPEAKER_00]: Because how could anyone really feel close to him or like he had their back when everyone knew how he was playing?
[00:49:29] [SPEAKER_00]: And that is why Matt lost.
[00:49:34] [SPEAKER_03]: Well said, David.
[00:49:35] [SPEAKER_03]: Thanks.
[00:49:36] [SPEAKER_03]: Great first monologue, honestly, for our first week right there.
[00:49:40] [SPEAKER_00]: Yes.
[00:49:41] [SPEAKER_00]: Now, before we continue into our predictions, I did want to mention, by the way, I don't think people can see this.
[00:49:49] [SPEAKER_00]: In honor of the first person evicted, I am wearing my official Jelinski shirt, who was the first person evicted or voted out of the last season of Survivor.
[00:50:04] [SPEAKER_00]: And I won a bet against Lindsay, who was our guest on the first episode of that season.
[00:50:12] [SPEAKER_00]: And so I now have this Jelinski shirt and I wear it proudly.
[00:50:18] [SPEAKER_00]: Thank you.
[00:50:18] [SPEAKER_00]: I love it.
[00:50:19] [SPEAKER_00]: I love it.
[00:50:21] [SPEAKER_00]: Now, again, like I said, before we get to our predictions, which they will be spoiler free.
[00:50:26] [SPEAKER_00]: But if you want our full spoilery thoughts, we're all over social media.
[00:50:32] [SPEAKER_03]: Yes, we are.
[00:50:33] [SPEAKER_03]: We are active on a number of different social media platforms where we discuss Big Brother and other topics on Twitter.
[00:50:39] [SPEAKER_03]: No, not as X4, we're going to call it Twitter.
[00:50:41] [SPEAKER_03]: I am at the Ovi Kabir.
[00:50:42] [SPEAKER_03]: On Instagram, I'm at Ovi Kabir.
[00:50:44] [SPEAKER_03]: And on TikTok, I'm at Basmati Boy.
[00:50:46] [SPEAKER_03]: David is truly all over the place.
[00:50:48] [SPEAKER_03]: There are a few ways you can track him down, though.
[00:50:49] [SPEAKER_03]: You can find all his various accounts through his Linktree at Linktree slash David Bloomberg.
[00:50:53] [SPEAKER_03]: Or you can find him on Twitter and Blue Sky at David Bloomberg.
[00:50:56] [SPEAKER_03]: On Threads, he's at David Bloomberg TV.
[00:50:59] [SPEAKER_03]: Because that's also linked to his Instagram.
[00:51:01] [SPEAKER_03]: He's also at David Bloomberg TV on there on video platforms of Instagram, TikTok, and YouTube.
[00:51:07] [SPEAKER_00]: Yep.
[00:51:07] [SPEAKER_00]: And since Big Brother has started, I have been very busy posting three or even more videos per day at all three of those video sites.
[00:51:16] [SPEAKER_00]: They have obviously been a combination of Big Brother, both about the show and the live feeds.
[00:51:23] [SPEAKER_00]: Also about Claim to Fame, The Amazing Race Canada, Traders New Zealand.
[00:51:27] [SPEAKER_00]: There's a reality show out there.
[00:51:29] [SPEAKER_00]: I post about it.
[00:51:31] [SPEAKER_00]: Mostly.
[00:51:32] [SPEAKER_00]: Okay.
[00:51:33] [SPEAKER_00]: Let me say this.
[00:51:34] [SPEAKER_00]: If there's a reality show that I watch out there.
[00:51:36] [SPEAKER_00]: Now, speaking of The Traders New Zealand, I am currently co-hosting The Tradar podcast to recap and analyze the two episodes per week.
[00:51:46] [SPEAKER_00]: You can find The Tradar, that's T-R-A-I-D-A-R, on your usual podcast host or as audio on YouTube.
[00:51:56] [SPEAKER_00]: Predictions.
[00:51:57] [SPEAKER_00]: Predictions.
[00:51:59] [SPEAKER_00]: As I mentioned, our predictions are spoiler free.
[00:52:02] [SPEAKER_00]: That means we write them up before we know the outcome.
[00:52:05] [SPEAKER_00]: And now I'm thinking we're not even going to know who the HOH is for much of this season, at least until the AI arena twist is done.
[00:52:12] [SPEAKER_00]: Because clearly they're using the AI arena as the comp on Thursdays and then pushing the HOH comp to Sundays.
[00:52:23] [SPEAKER_00]: So we have to go, we have to make predictions, not even knowing who the HOH is.
[00:52:30] [SPEAKER_00]: With that in mind, it seems like a lot of players want to throw this HOH.
[00:52:35] [SPEAKER_00]: But I suspect there are enough who want to win such that the targets will either be McKenzie or Lisa, probably Lisa.
[00:52:48] [SPEAKER_00]: Then again, Kenny's attitude of wanting to go home could also make him an easy target.
[00:52:53] [SPEAKER_00]: So what the heck?
[00:52:54] [SPEAKER_00]: I'll predict those three as the nominees.
[00:52:57] [SPEAKER_00]: McKenzie will get off the block either through winning the veto or using America's veto.
[00:53:01] [SPEAKER_00]: I don't really think that will change things unless the HOH or America makes Angela the replacement nominee.
[00:53:11] [SPEAKER_00]: Now, based on the comments on my TikTok and YouTube videos, I think Angela will be America's choice if that comes up.
[00:53:20] [SPEAKER_00]: There's a lot of casuals who really do not like Angela.
[00:53:23] [SPEAKER_00]: And not just casuals.
[00:53:24] [SPEAKER_00]: I'm not saying if you don't like, you know.
[00:53:26] [SPEAKER_00]: But I'm telling you, there are a lot of casuals who don't like Angela.
[00:53:32] [SPEAKER_00]: So even so, I don't feel like the majority of house guests want her out rather than Lisa.
[00:53:39] [SPEAKER_00]: We know Tucker really wants Lisa gone.
[00:53:42] [SPEAKER_00]: And he played a pretty big role in setting things up this week, even if it wasn't shown on TV.
[00:53:47] [SPEAKER_00]: So I think he'll accomplish this goal and get his rival chef out of the house.
[00:53:53] [SPEAKER_03]: You know what?
[00:53:54] [SPEAKER_03]: I think we are actually pretty close to the same method of thought right here because I do think Lisa is going to be somebody who's going to be in danger.
[00:54:02] [SPEAKER_03]: I think Kenny is going to be a pawn on there.
[00:54:05] [SPEAKER_03]: But I also think Angela could be on there.
[00:54:07] [SPEAKER_03]: Here's my crazy theory, all right?
[00:54:09] [SPEAKER_03]: I see some combination of Angela on there and Lisa.
[00:54:12] [SPEAKER_03]: And we'll probably throw maybe Kenny or somebody in there.
[00:54:16] [SPEAKER_03]: Angela throws Quinn under the bus, okay?
[00:54:20] [SPEAKER_03]: Talks about his power, puts a target on Quinn.
[00:54:23] [SPEAKER_03]: We see Quinn, total curveball as a renom.
[00:54:28] [SPEAKER_03]: And then we see what goes from there because of his threat level.
[00:54:32] [SPEAKER_03]: Because if that power – here's the thing is that power is so strong.
[00:54:36] [SPEAKER_03]: If that comes out – and I think it's going to come out because it's in Angela's mind.
[00:54:40] [SPEAKER_03]: And if she feels threatened, that's coming out – you need to take a swing at that early game.
[00:54:46] [SPEAKER_03]: I would 100%.
[00:54:47] [SPEAKER_03]: It doesn't matter how much cloud, how much connections Quinn has.
[00:54:51] [SPEAKER_03]: They're going to be in trouble if that comes out.
[00:54:53] [SPEAKER_00]: So that's my prediction.
[00:54:54] [SPEAKER_00]: Crazy curveball.
[00:54:55] [SPEAKER_00]: So wait.
[00:54:56] [SPEAKER_00]: Who are you saying gets evicted?
[00:55:00] [SPEAKER_03]: I think if it comes out, it's Quinn.
[00:55:01] [SPEAKER_03]: If not, I think it's Angela.
[00:55:02] [SPEAKER_03]: I think Lisa stays.
[00:55:04] [SPEAKER_03]: I think Lisa finds a way to stay.
[00:55:05] [SPEAKER_00]: Okay.
[00:55:06] [SPEAKER_00]: Well, which is – you got to pick one.
[00:55:07] [SPEAKER_00]: None of this Heming and Hog nonsense.
[00:55:10] [SPEAKER_00]: Okay.
[00:55:10] [SPEAKER_00]: You know what?
[00:55:11] [SPEAKER_00]: I'll go crazy.
[00:55:12] [SPEAKER_03]: Quinn is going home.
[00:55:13] [SPEAKER_03]: No, he is not.
[00:55:14] [SPEAKER_03]: He is not going home.
[00:55:15] [SPEAKER_03]: All right?
[00:55:16] [SPEAKER_03]: No way.
[00:55:16] [SPEAKER_03]: I'm trying to be nice.
[00:55:17] [SPEAKER_03]: I didn't want to put it in the air.
[00:55:18] [SPEAKER_03]: But that's my bet right there.
[00:55:22] [SPEAKER_03]: Okay.
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[00:56:47] [SPEAKER_00]: All right.
[00:56:48] [SPEAKER_00]: And thank you, of course, Ovi, for joining me in this great first episode.
[00:56:52] [SPEAKER_00]: We will be back next week, and who knows what will happen.
[00:56:55] [SPEAKER_00]: I just know it won't be your prediction.
[00:56:58] [SPEAKER_00]: It will be wrong.
[00:56:59] [SPEAKER_00]: It will be wrong.
[00:57:00] [SPEAKER_00]: We'll see.
[00:57:01] [SPEAKER_00]: We'll see.
[00:57:02] [SPEAKER_00]: We'll see.
[00:57:03] [SPEAKER_00]: Tune in next week to find out.
[00:57:05] [SPEAKER_00]: That's right.
[00:57:05] [SPEAKER_00]: All right, everyone.
[00:57:07] [SPEAKER_00]: Bye.
[00:57:07] [SPEAKER_01]: This is why Blank lost.
[00:57:10] [SPEAKER_01]: And this is why Blank lost.
[00:57:13] [SPEAKER_01]: Baby, this is why Blank lost.